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Tuberculosis: Migration Doesn’t Have to Be a Barrier

Mar 25, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Tuberculosis is curable, easy to diagnose, and easy to prevent. Despite these simple facts, 1.3 million…
Pregnant woman stands in front of agricultural field

New England Journal of Medicine Publishes Health Network Case Study Highlighting Social Distance

Mar 22, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
A 39-year-old pregnant farmworker faces numerous health risks. Engaged in heavy physical labor and exposed to pesticides and heat, she may also face poor living conditions, contaminated water, or…
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Dr. Ed Zuroweste: What is a climate migrant, and how do we care for them?

Jan 9, 2019
By: Brenda Ramirez
Today, Migrant Clinicians Network’s Ed Zuroweste, MD, Co-Chief Medical Officer, published an op-ed in STAT News detailing the rise of climate migrants -- those who are moving because climate…
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Dr. Laszlo Madaras on Immigration: Care and Respect is Part of the American Character

Jan 8, 2019
By: Jannette Nuñez
What a difference a half-century makes. 50 years ago in the fall of 1968, I arrived in America as a young boy, and my family was not very different from many of those waiting at the US-Mexico…
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Seven-Year-Old Migrant Girl’s Death: How to bring basic humanitarian aid to the border

Dec 18, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
It is a heartbreaking refugee story: A seven-year-old girl, Jakelin Caal Maquin, and her father leave the family behind in a destitute village in Guatemala, to take a dangerous journey in…
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Clinician Action Today: Why Public Charge Affects Public Health

Dec 10, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Today is the final day for public comments on the Trump Administration’s proposed changes to public charge. Despite the proposal not yet being into effect, the consequences are already being felt…
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Militarization on the Border: Professor Timothy Dunn on the History and Implications for Health

Dec 4, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Assuring health justice for the mobile poor, including asylum seekers and refugees, starts with an immigration strategy that prioritizes health and well-being. As we’ve seen in recent months,…
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Position Statement: Migrants and Refugee Seekers Deserve Asylum Claim Process, Not Tear Gas

Nov 26, 2018
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
(photo by Karl Hoffman) Yesterday, Customs and Border Protection agents fired tear gas into a crowd of migrants near the Tijuana-San Diego port of entry, after some, participating in a protest,…
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New Study: Oral Health is One of Mobile Agricultural Workers’ “Greatest Unmet Health Needs”

Nov 21, 2018
By: Elaine Penn
By Ileana Maria Ponce-Gonzalez, MD, MPCH, CNC, Executive Director, Community Health Worker Coalition for Migrants and Refugees Oral health is one of the greatest unmet health needs of mobile…
In the spotlight: Alma Colmenero

In the Spotlight: Alma Colmenero, Health Network Associate

Nov 14, 2018
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
photo credit: Robert Corona “Alma is dedicated to her work. She’s a hard worker and reliable. She’s a very caring person, which is carried into her work. I know her patients are in good hands…
Ed Zuroweste treats baby

Giving Tuesday: Four Ways You Can Help Migrants and Refugees with Health Network

Nov 13, 2018
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Health Network, Migrant Clinicians Network’s unique bridge case management system, saves lives, hundreds of lives, every year. People like Maria*, who needed surgery on her leg after being…
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Reverse Diabetes with Plant-Based Diets: Two Doctors Invite You To Try

Nov 8, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
(Photo by Earl Dotter) Top four reasons why Latino patients are good candidates to go plant-based In 2012, Dr. Leon and Dr. Carral, who originally hail from Mexico, launched Vegetariano en 21…
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In the Field: Next Steps in Worldwide TB Elimination at the Union Conference

Oct 31, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Deliana Garcia presenting to legislators from across the Americas on the importance of effective #TB care for migrants. Last week’s Union World Conference on Lung Health, held in The Hague, was…
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Voces Fuertes Benefit Concert: “We See You And We Care”

Oct 30, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
“For the past two years, we’ve heard from clinicians all over the country variations on this theme, which is ‘my patients are experiencing increasing levels of fear and stress; the families that…
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Witnessing: How Clinicians Can Move From Traumatic Stress to Empowerment While Serving Their Immigrant Patients

Oct 25, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
(photo by Earl Dotter) When Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, first entered clinical practice as a psychologist and family therapist in 1970s Boston, she began to notice a common theme among her work with…
Jill and Del with Voces Fuertes

Berkeley Benefit Concert: Youth Support MCN Through Activism

Oct 9, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Last month, 30 teenagers from around Berkeley, California, piled onto couches and squatted on shag carpeting in a rec room of a local Presbyterian church. They had been listening to Deliana…
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MCN and Ventanilla de Salud Celebrate Binational Health Week

Oct 2, 2018
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Luis Edwardo Retta This time of the year marks the annual Binational Health Week at the Mexican Consulate of Austin. Along with Ventanillas de Salud all over the country, the Austin Ventanilla…
Woman receives treatment at clinic

Public Health or Public Charge? MCN Statement on the Administration’s Changes to Public Charge Policy

Sep 24, 2018
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
(Photo by Earl Dotter)As clinicians serving the mobile poor including many new immigrants, we strongly reject the proposed changes to “public charge” policy as it discourages people from seeking…
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Children at the Border: Layers of Trauma Compounded By Detention

Jun 19, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
photo by Karl Hoffman In the first six weeks of the Trump Administration’s new policy of separating children from parents who requested asylum after crossing the border as is within their legal…
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Toxic: How To Battle Adverse Childhood Experiences Among Mobile Agricultural Workers

Jun 6, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Divorce, violence in the community, a family member incarcerated or deported, physical or sexual abuse, a lengthy and dangerous migration. For many people across the US, adverse experiences like…
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Position Statement: Families Seeking Safe Haven Should Not Be Separated

May 14, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
As health care providers, we at Migrant Clinicians Network strongly oppose immigration policy that separates children from their parents. The lifelong health impacts of such trauma administered by…
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MCN Statement: DACA and the Health Care Workforce

Feb 19, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
We at Migrant Clinicians Network are deeply committed to the development of a health care workforce that meets the needs of all individuals in every community. The pursuit of a clinical workforce…
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Documentation As a Barrier to Care: Dr. Marsha Griffin on Border Health Care and Split Families

Jan 18, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
"Candle of Hope" by Alan PogueIn October of last year, Rosa Maria, a 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, was being transported by ambulance from her hometown of Laredo, Texas to a nearby hospital…
Jirayut “New” Latthivongskorn at San Francisco General Hospital

For DACA Med Student, The Path to Becoming a Clinician for the Underserved is in Jeopardy

Oct 5, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Jirayut “New” Latthivongskorn at San Francisco General Hospital. Photo: Jirayut LatthivongskornOne month ago today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a March 5th, 2018 end of Deferred Action…
Apple tree orchard without farm worker

Farmers Adjust to Fewer Workers: Reprint of Rural Migration News Blog

Sep 28, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
[Editor’s Note: This week, the mobile agricultural worker shortage was once again in the news. Last month, Rural Migration News blog posted this analysis of how farmers are shifting gears in…
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Luck of the Draw: A Sudanese Woman's Journey to the United States

Sep 13, 2017
By: Jean Schrecengost
Fatima*, a North Sudanese woman in her mid-twenties, welcomes me into her apartment for an interview. She wears jeans and a blouse but no turha, the term she uses for the headscarf she usually dons…